Film star looks: Kate Winslet

Corsets and crinoline, bonnets and bloomers – it’s all just another day at the office for Kate Winslet. The Reading-born actress has conquered the period costume look during her 15-year film career. She has journeyed as far back as the late 1790s for Quills, venturing forth into the British Regency era for Sense and Sensibility and into the Victorian age for the likes of Jude and Hamlet. In the 20th Century she has dashed around decades from the Edwardian Finding Neverland and Titanic through to wartime hardship in Enigma, 50s gloom in Heavenly Creatures and 60s bohemia in Hideous Kinky before coming up-to-date with the likes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Holiday.

It’s an exhaustive race around history that has often seen the acclaimed actress weighed down by impractical and outdated fashions, and yet she has emerged as one of the most stylish and emulated of onscreen stars. And so as her World War II drama The Reader continues to win her prestigious industry awards and Revolutionary Road, her much-hyped onscreen reunion with Leonardo DiCaprio hits cinemas, we take a look back at some of the most eye-catching of Kate’s cinematic alter-egos and show you how to get her look.